How could Noah get all the animals unto the ark?

He couldn’t, because it’s just a story that didn’t actually happen.

I don't know

I never actually took the story literally to question that 😂​

Amusingly, the standard answer to this is why there is such a fuss about "biblical kinds". Because in order to try and make this story plausible, you need to cut down the number of species to the minimum possible amount. So they say one set of each "kind" came aboard... and then make a "kind" the widest possible definition. That's why usually a "kind" is a "species" when you're talking to a creationist, but when they get onto Noah's ark a "kind" suddenly becomes a Genus, a Family, a whole Order - some even make an entire Kingdom one kind, so there only has to be one set of bacteria!

And how did all those diversify into the animals we see today? Believe it or not, the believers say it was via evolution. So not only do they believe in evolution, and well above the species level, they posit that evolution used to be massively faster than anything we have ever observed.


There are tons of animals that could never have made it to the ark. Many species are limited to one particular environment and would die if they left it - cave-dwelling arthropods for instance, which can't survive in less than 100% relative humidity. How did these make their way to the middle east, of all places?

Many are limited to one particular food - did the Koala bears swim from Australia over to Asia? Did they do so whilst each carrying many times their own bodyweight of Eucalyptus leaves on their backs?

What about parasitic creatures? If just two (or seven) of each species went to the ark, then how did the parasites that live in them and often kill them make the trip? Did dozens and dozens of extra beetles, flies, moths, etc all make the long journey so that they could give up their lives on the way in order to ensure that parasitic wasps could make it there? And more so that the lethal viruses and bacteria could make it?

And how did Noah and his family look after them all? Look at how many people the average zoo employs to look after the animals. The ark was the biggest zoo in history, and it was run by eight people!


Exactly. Flood myths are common to most societies, because throughout history most societies lived by water. Even if you're inland you want to live near a river. So most everyone has to deal with floods, just like we still do today. It's easy to imagine a story starting as "I heard about this god who was so awesome, he helped out with advance warning of a flood and they built a boat..." After a thousand retellings, you get the biblical story.


Genesis 7:2 : Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

There are other verses that describe which are clean and which are unclean; there are plenty of both.


Not to mention that a seaworthy wooden boat the size of the ark is a physical impossibility. There's a reason all those ark "replicas" the fundies like to build are floating around on steel barges and use construction like this :